[Ammon] repairs busted LCD monitors as a side hobby, so replacing burned out CCFLs and inverter circuits is something he can do in his sleep. One Dell monitor he received had him so perplexed ...

Eerily, 62 years ago, these authors predicted that 10 7 inverter equivalent circuits (20M transistors) on a chip, perhaps seeming like an outrageous gate count at the time, would only dissipate 1 W.